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  • African Institutions
    Ali A. Mazrui / Ali AMazrui / Francis Wiafe-Amoako
    Written by the leading scholar on Africa, this comprehensive text examines three key issue areas in Africa: politics, society, and economy. Featuring many case studies, including Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Morocco, Togo, DRC, Ethiopia, Rwanda, the book provides some explanation of underdevelopment in Africa, linking the historical and colonial reali...
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    127,93 €

  • Waking the Lion
    Roger L. Jennings
    Within each of us is the heart of a lion. Each of us can make a difference.  One man, a hunchback working for the YMCA, saved 1,250,000 people from death. Others who could have helped to save humanity instead were self-dealing. Most people of the world would cower and run. They are called refugees. Americans are different. This American from the Y risked his own and his son’s l...
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    14,55 €

  • Africa and the Millennium Development Goals
    This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 2000. The chapters are organized around the larger themes of political economy, structural issues, sustainable goals, and human development goals. Together they provide a unique asse...
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    112,43 €

  • Africa and the Millennium Development Goals
    This unique work by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, tracks the progress Africa has made in achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) since 2000. The chapters are organized around the larger themes of political economy, structural issues, sustainable goals, and human development goals. Together they provide a unique asse...
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    52,93 €

  • Development and the State in the 21st Century
    Andrea Kendall-Taylor / Erica Frantz / Natasha Ezrow
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    225,61 €

  • Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa
    Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging behind socio-economically, and its democracy questionable. We admit that a plethora ...
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    67,81 €

  • The Role of Social Work in Poverty Reduction and Realization of MDGs in Kenya
    Agnes P. Zani / Agnes PZani / Gidraph G. Wairire / Gidraph GWairire / Mumbi Machera
    This publication addresses the extent to which social work curricula in Kenya prepares graduates to handle issues of poverty and social development, the specific knowledge and skills that they are equipped with an existing gaps therein. In addition, the challenges that confront the training and practice of social workers and what needs to be done to ensure that there is an enab...
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    46,25 €

  • Broken Promises of Globalization
    Shahidur Rahman
    Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry contributes to the contemporary debate on the limits and possibilities of globalization to the global south. It examines how a Least Developed Country is dealing with both domestic and external pressures in its response to neo-liberalization. ...
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    79,54 €

  • Autocracy and Redistribution
    Michael Albertus
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    25,33 €

  • The Knowledge Plexus
    George Chorafakis
    This book is a collection of 5 essays on the economic geography of technological knowledge. Their common threads are: (i) the quest for a new paradigm in economic geography, termed ’systemic’, as an alternative to the neoclassical, based on the epistemological premise of emergence and the theories of evolution and complexity; and (ii) the intent to explain the process of techno...
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    65,82 €

  • The State of African Cities 2014
    United Nations Human Settlements Program
    The African continent is currently in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Africa's economic performance is promising, with booming cities supporting growing middle classes and creating sizable consumer markets. Despite significant overall growth, the continent co...
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    65,50 €

  • In the Absence of the Gift
    Anders Emil Rasmussen
    '. . . a very convincing case for the refiguring of our understanding of contemporary remittance motivations. Crucial to this is the focus on sharing, as opposed to formal transaction . . . Also original and exciting is the emphasis on the deployment of ’community’ as a crucial indigenous category of description and organization . . . I have not read a better or more convincing...
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    184,46 €

  • Where Are All Our Sheep?
    Boris Petric
    '...the best book to date on post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. It combines personal observations with careful, critical analysis. The style is at times humorous and conversational, creating the impression at first glance that it might be a somewhat superficial account of the region. In fact, however, it is an extraordinarily perceptive analysis of the process of transition and re-adjustm...
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    184,57 €

  • Empire, Global Coloniality & African Subjectivity
    Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni / Sabelo JNdlovu-Gatsheni
    '...Ndlovu-Gatsheni rejects modernist perspectives that present Africa as deficient [and],,, convincingly conveys the richness of African perspectives, arguing that problems are caused by how coloniality misappropriates Africa’s wealth. However, [the author] also demonstrates how some demagogical African governments, such as Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF regime, are complicit in plunderin...
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    44,37 €

  • The Rebirth of African Civilization
    Chancellor Williams
    2015 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The book is an affirmation of education and an espousal of cooperative democracy as a way of life for the new Africa. It contains as well a report on social studies of African life. It also expounds on the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Africa...
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    21,40 €

  • Normas Minimas Para La Recuperacion Economica
    La Red Seep / Seep Network
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    35,28 €

  • Transforming Public Health in Developing Nations
    Mohamud Sheikhh
    The rise of globalized business has created a world village wherein ideas and industry transcend national boundaries. Unfortunately, the resulting increase in travel has accelerated the transmission of diseases, generating a surge in worldwide epidemics and increasing the necessity of innovative strategies for prevention, containment, and communication related to global health ...
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    282,35 €

  • Socio-Economic Development
    Adam Szirmai
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    208,01 €

  • Socio-Economic Development
    Adam Szirmai
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    101,06 €

  • Information Economy Report 2015
    United Nations Conference on Trade and D
    Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is rapidly transforming the way in which enterprises are interacting among each other as well as with consumers and governments. Despite important potential benefits, businesses and consumers in developing countries were for a long time slow to exploit e-commerce. As a result of changes in the evolving landscape for information and communication...
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    77,60 €

  • SIHA Journal
    SIHA
    Women in Islam explores the complexities of gender relations in Muslim communities in the Horn of Africa and beyond, engaging critically with the social, political and cultural challenges associated with the intersection of Islam and gender. With an eclectic selection of essays, academic papers, opinion pieces and personal narratives punctuated with poetry and art, the journal ...
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    43,91 €

  • Africa
    Thandika Mkandawire
    Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africa's attempts at growth and developme...
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    38,66 €

  • La microfinance en Afrique centrale
    The rural poor face a major challenge to access financial services provided by the formal banking system. These poor are excluded from the system because of the requirements imposed on them by that banking sector. The microfinance promise is to ensure that the excluded have access to financial products. Financial intermediation of microfinance through microcredit, micro-transfe...
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    71,27 €

  • Economic Growth and Development
    Matthew McCartney
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    225,65 €

  • Nigeria
    Bukola Oyeniyi / Toyin Falola
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    142,57 €

  • Anthropology and Development
    David Lewis / Katy Gardner
    Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century. This book engages with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry. In particular, it argues that while the world of international de...
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    147,97 €

  • Anthropology and Development
    David Lewis / Katy Gardner
    Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century. This book engages with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry. In particular, it argues that while the world of international de...
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    42,18 €

  • Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of the BRICS
    For the almost 40 years of its existence, ANPOCS has contributed to introducing or consolidating new thematic areas in the academic agenda of debates in the Brazilian social sciences. Commensurate with this history, at the 37th Annual meeting, hosted in Águas de Lindoia, São Paulo, in 2013, we organized a large International Symposium, The BRICS and their social, political and ...
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    73,76 €

  • Comparative Case Studies on Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries
    Joseph Ofori-Dankwa / Kwame Boasiako Omane-Antwi
    Lauded as a driver of economic growth, entrepreneurship and small business ventures have become increasingly attractive to countries looking to boost employment rates, productivity, and innovation. The manifestation of entrepreneurship varies from country to country, and what works for one may not work for the next. Comparative Case Studies on Entrepreneurship in Developed and ...
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    256,01 €

  • Collaborative Governance in Extractive Industries in Africa
    The potential for using revenues from extractive resources for inclusive growth in Africa is tremendous. However, the realisation of the transformative role that extractive industries could play in sustainable development has been elusive in most African countries. Extractive industries in most of these countries are plagued with numerous conflicts, some with serious casualties...
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    45,83 €


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